Oak Harbor Cinemas

Their Anacortes Cinemas and their Ocean Shores cinemas are also for sale.

This theater was originally opened in the 1980’s by the “A Theater Near You” company. It was then taken over by Oasis Entertainment (owners the late Dave Fazende and his business partner Steve Lange). The late Paul Thompson and I (Ken Layton) were the technicians who kept the equipment running. Oasis Entertainment sold out to Faraway Entertainment around 2008.

The Plaza Cinema 2 opened its doors on January 23, 1981 with “The Mirror Crack’d” in Screen 1 and “The Private Eyes” in Screen 2. A third screen was added on May 6, 1983, and was renamed the Plaza Cinemas.

During its early days as a twin as of 1981, both auditoriums housed 208 seats each, which is 416 seats total, and the rows of seats in both auditoriums are laid out in an arc so each viewer’s point of vision is directed at the center of the screen. The two original auditoriums are also separated by an 18-inch thick wall composed in insulated sheet rock, dead air space, and other materials that made the sound “deadened”. Its original managers are Steve Lange and John Solin, and the entire theater building measures 7,000 square-foot located just south of the Safeway store, which had also opened around that same week as its original 1981 opening for the theater.